[GEM Development] GEM Desktop & Linux

[Liam Proven]

On 3 November 2011 03:52, Jeff Wood <rtdos at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Awhile back I had read somewhere that OpenGEM or FreeGEM was in the process
> of being ported to Linux as a usable Display/Window Manager. The project
> went so far as to have a page on sourceforge. Whatever became of that?

I'd love to see it, but it's a big job! Didn't know anyone had done it.

The oath of least resistance would be to obtain the sources from X-GEM
on FlexOS, which was a multitasking-aware GEM on top of an (I think
possibly POSIX-compliant) multitasking OS. But I don't think that got
open sourced, and I also believe IBM is still selling it!

http://www-03.ibm.com/products/retail/products/software/4690/index.html

(Found from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexOS -- which I recently
found someone's done some *serious* work on in the last couple of
years since I last looked at it.)

The alternative would be to take the bits of the multitasking FOSS ST
GEM, from the Afros project, and port 'em back to X86. Still a big
job, though.

http://aranym.sourceforge.net/afros.html



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